Godkin Nersi

Godkin Nersi was the first person to establish and hold the title of Godkin- a prolific religious title meaning 'he who is in kinship with Tarn themself'. Godkin Nersi began his religious career later in life, a wealth nobleman Nersi found purpose in joining the The Church of Tarn as a novitiate as an adult and advancing through the ranks until he was granted the rank of Lector whist serving at a small church west of Lull (modern-day Denmaerd) Rowans became faciniated by both the kitham and the elven use of magic. Seeking to study and understand as much about it as possible, despite he himself having no magical inclinations. Nersi is said to have spent much of his youth with elves underground and could speak fluent elvish. A rarity among kitham.   This facination with magic turned into an attitude of revulsion as Nersi lived to see the rise of the magic plague and the extermination of all elves. He like many humans began to regard magic as a thing of danger, an unpredictable thing of malice which would always hurt in the long run, next time it may be humans affected by such a blight. He joined several campaigns to protest against the unsealing of the elven tunnels, he became more radicalised and was pushing some of hi fellow church members to commit vio.ence and question thee teachings of Tarm. This caused such upset that he was excommunicated from the Church of Tarn altogether, it was then that Nersi went off grid for sometime. There is little information on what he did during this reprieve, but during he completely reinvented his persona, now calling himself Godkin Nersi. The man he was uncharismatic and crass instead became someone magnetic and deeply possessed of purpose. He spoke strange stories of receiving messages from Tarn of conversing with the god. He spoke in richness and depth of the conversations citing deeply of lore and history, it drew even the most devout of the church o Tarn towards him. He campaigned on anti-magic rhetoric citing the current tenets of Tarn as outdated and harmful. And with his newfound following he cultivated the new sect known as the Brotherhood of Tarn.   After officially splitting from th chruch Godkin Nersi commanded all of his followers to forsake and sell their belongings all of the men following him were instructed to leave their homes, families and land. The band began to rove around Gand, in direct opposition to the Church of Tarn, they sought out donations and took on jobs acting almost like a militant force, they settled disputes, retrieved stolen property, even murdered if the needed arose. Despite the new gangs devotion to their cause the worship of the church was far too wide spread to be overcome, and Nersi realised his ambition of replacing the church was unrealistic. And so opted for a smaller, insular congregation instead. Due to the unsealing of the tunnels many Kitham were moving into abandoned elven structured and adding on top of them. Nersi found an elven look out tower that was constructed during the human elven conflict and sat directly on top of many intersecting pathways. He established this tower as the basis of his operations and names it the Keep. From here his congregation could be self-sufficient yet not wholly cut off from the outside world. Around this time he was gifted the cosmic sceptre by the high acolytes of the Church of Tarn, this was seen as a peace offering and a means to ed the feud between the two.    Godkin Nersi would formulate new practices and establish the Brotherhood as a legitimate organisation for many years. Thanks to the cosmic sceptre he was granted a much longer lifespan. In his final days the way he spoke of his visions became more incoherent and disjointed, referencing impossible things or things as premonition but had already come to pass. One morning he awoke blind, his eyes had turned a milky white and he only spoke in elvish. He trekked down to the catacombs hidden in the belly of the Keep. Carrying with him finely spun yarn, here he undertook his last act and began to weave the fibre around himself lacing it into a cacoon-like structure the cacoon was one piece and was joined over his head. It is unsure if he died of exhaustion, illness or suffocation but his body would remain there, in what is now known as the shroud of Godkin Nersi.